First, no reason to worry! On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote:
>I am getting unexplained system shutdowns at arbitrary times. Also No shutdowns! Or have you actually observed them yourself? I mean have you been sitting at the console watching the machine go down? >the system clock is being changed when this unexplained shutdown / >restart occurs. This is best demonstrated by the following entries in >my /var/log/messages file (Debian 2.1) > >Jun 9 06:55:21 fea -- MARK -- This is just a "still-alive" message from syslogd. You can safely ignore it (or stop it by specifying "mark.none" for /var/log/messages). >Jun 9 06:58:01 fea exiting on signal 15 >Jun 9 05:01:33 fea syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart. This is just produced by a daily script that trims the logs. To do this you have to stop syslogd/klogd, trim the logs, then restart both. If you trimmed the logs while the two daemons are still running they wouldn't be able to create/append to the logs anymore. Again: I don't think there is a reason to be alarmed. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
